Tom Daniels is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Land Use and Environmental Planning Concentration in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design. His main areas of interest are farmland preservation, growth management, solar development, and climate change. In the past five years, Daniels has published articles on solar development on farmland, designing sustainable suburbs, and using greenbelts to mitigate climate change. He has also served as a consultant to state and local governments and land trusts, including work on reforming Vermont's land use and development law, Act 250, and major land and agricultural studies for the Lancaster (PA) Farmland Trust, the Hartford (MD) Land Trust, and the Morgan County (GA) Conservancy. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where for nine years he managed the county's nationally recognized farmland preservation program. Daniels serves on the Editorial Board of Socio-Ecological Practice Research.